At 11:06 -0800 on 9/02/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:


Hi,

>
> > I've made a ppp line on /dev/tty01 at 57600
> > It's running perfectly ( I can do telnet, ftp ).
> > I've download MI/X-ppc ( X server from microimage),
> > , and on my shell ( with telnet), I put
> > "setenv DISPLAY ip.of.my.power-mac:0.0",
> > but when I launch an X11 program nothing happened,
> > ( except oclock or xlogo,that are working very well...)
> > HELP !!!! what can I do ????
>
> So oclock will show up on your powermac?

Yes... I've made other test.
x11perf is working very well..... and that's all :-((
Something strange...
when I made xmodmap -pke -verbose, it doesn't do anything....
ie: it doesn't show my keymap.

> If some things show up, then
> the X connection is basically ok. You should check and see what
> the disgnostic messages are from the command (I know MacX will
> spit stuff out).

That is the 2nd problem...
Program are not crashing , or stopping with an error message, it's just
doing nothing.....waiting.
So I tried with Exodus6.01...... I got exactly the same thing.... :-(

> Also, check and make sure you have enough pty's (pseudo-tty's).
> Files like /dev/ptyp4, /dev/ptyp5, etc should exist (you got ptyp0 through
> ptyp3 in the base install; I'm suggesting you need more).

I've tried this, and I have always the same problem...

I got X11R6.1, but MI/X, or Exodus6.01 is X11R6.0 server...
Perhpas I must install the old X distribution.... ?


/jblancha@pratique.fr